Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-18

nave Dctn st1ttu AT UOu y taDle- SpTluE,
summer, autumn aud winter he has appro-
priately appareled you. Your health
from Him, your companion from Him,
your children from Him, your home from
Him; all the bright surroundings of your
life from Him. o man, what dost thou
with that hard heart? Canst thou not
| feel one
THRoB OF GRATITUDE TOWARD THE COL
that made you, and the Christ who came
to redeem you, and the Holy Ghost who
has all these years been importuning you
Ifyou could sit down five minutes under
the tree of q Saviour's martyrdom, and
feel his warm life trickling on your fore
head, and cheek, and hands, methinks
you would get some appreciation Of what
you owe to a crucifed Jesus.
Heart of stone, relent, relent
Touched by Jesus cross subdued
See His body. 'nansled, rent,
Covered with a gore OF blood.
Sinful soul, what hast thou done
Crucifed the eternal Son"
Jacob with a good deal of tug aud push
took the stone from the Wells mouth, SC
that the flocks might be watered. And
would that tins morning my word, blessed
of God, might remove the hindrances to
your getting up to the Gospel we'll. Yea;
take it for granted that the work is done,
and now like Oriental shepherds, proceed
to water the sheep.
Come, all ye thirsty! You have an
underlined longing in your soul. You tried
money making; that did not satisfy you.
You tried office under Government; that
did not satisfy you. You tried pictures
and sculptures; but works of art did not
satisfy you. You are as much discontented
with this lie as the celebrated French au-
thor who felt that he could no longer en-
dure the mistortunes of the world, and who
said: AT four O'Clock this afternoon
shall put an end to my own existence.
Meanwhile, l must toll on up to that
time for the sustenance of my family" ]"
And he wrote on his book until the clock
struck four, when he folded up his manu-
script and, by his own hand, concluded his
earthly life. There are men in this house
who are perfectly discontented. Unhappy
in the past, unhappy to-day, to be unhappy
forever, unless You come to this Gospel
II. This satisfies the soul with high,
deep, all-absorbing and eternal satisfac-
ton. II comes, and il offers the most un-
fortunate man so much of this world as is
best for him, and throws all heaven into
the bargain. The wealth of CrTsus, and
of all the Stewards, and of all the Barings,
and all the Rothschilds is only q poor,
miserable shilling compared with the
ETERNAL FORTUNES THAT CHRIST OFFERS
you to-day. In the far East, there was a
king who nsed once q year TO get on n
scales, while on the other side the scales
were placed gold, and silver, and gems;
indeed, enough were placed there to
balance the king; then, at the close of the
weighing, all those treasures were thrown
among the populace. But Christ to-day
steps on one side the scales and on the
other side are all the treasures of the
universe, and He says: 'All are yours
all height, all depth, all length, all
breadth, all eternity; all are yours" We
don't appreciate the promises of the
Gospel. When an aged clergyman
was dying-a man very eminent
in the Church, young theological
student stood by his side, and
the aged man looked up and said to him:
Cant you give me some comfort In my
diving hour" "No, said the young man
81 can't talk TO you on this subject; you
know all about it, and have known it so
long" well" +" said the dying man, lust
recite to me some promises" The young
man thought moment and he came to
this promise: The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all SIM and the old man
clapped his hands. and in his dying mo-
ment said: That's just the promise have
been waiting for. The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all sim" oh, the
warmth, the magnificence, the grandeur Of
the promises!
Come. also, to this Gospel well, all ye
troubled. do not suppose you have e.
capped. Compare your view of this life At
fifteen years of aye with what your view
is of it at forty, or sixty, or seventy.
What a great contrast of opinion! Were
you right then, or are you right now? Two
cups placed in your hands the one sweet
cup, the other sour cup. A cup of joy
and cup of grief. Which has been the
nearest to being full, and out of which
have you the more frequently partaken?
What different place Greenwood is from
what it used to be? Once it was TO you
a grand city improvement, and you went
out on the pleasure excursion, and you
ran laughingly up the mound, and you
criticised in a light way the epitaph. But
since the day when you heard the bell toll
at the gate when you went in with the
procession, 1t is a sad place, aud there is a
food OF rushing memories that
suffuse the eye aud overmaster the heart.
Oh, you have bad trouble, trouble, trouble.
God only knows how much you have had.
IL is q wonder You have been able TO live
through it. IL is a wonder your nervous
system has not been shattered, and your
brain has not reeled. Trouble, trouble.
If could gather all the griets. of all sorts,
from this great audience, and could put
them in one scroll, neither man nor angel
could endure the recitation. Well, what
do you want? Would you like 10 have
your property back again? NO" you
say, as a Christian man, "I was becoming
arrogant, and / think that is why the
Lord took il away. don't want TO have
my property back" Well, would you
have your departed friends back again?
NO" yOu say. II couldn't take the
responsibility Of bringing them from n
fearless realm. / couldn't do it,"
Well, then, what do YOU want? A thou
sand voices in the audience cry ont: Com
fort, give MS comfort For that reason
have rolled away the stone from the wells
mouth. Come, all ye wounded of the
flock, pursued Of the wolves, come 10 the
fountain where the Lords sick and bereft
ones have come
"Ah," says some one, ''you are not old
enough to understand my sorrows. Yon
have not been in the world as long a.
have, and you can't talk to me about my
misfortunes in the time OF old age" Well.
may not have lived al long as you, but |
have been a great deal among old people,
and know bow they feel about their tail
ing health, and about their departed
friends. and about the loneliness that
sometimes strikes through their souls. Az
ter two persons have lived together for
forty years, and one Of them is taken
away. what desOlatIoD! shall not forget
the erv Of the late Rev. DIR. De Witt, Of
New York. when he stood by the open
grave of his beloved wife, and, after the
obseouies had ended, he looked down into
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